PARAPHRASE


Meaning of PARAPHRASE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pærəfreɪz ]

( paraphrases, paraphrasing, paraphrased)

1.

If you paraphrase someone or paraphrase something that they have said or written, you express what they have said or written in a different way.

Parents, to paraphrase Philip Larkin, can seriously damage your health...

I’m paraphrasing but this is honestly what he said.

VERB : V n , V

2.

A paraphrase of something written or spoken is the same thing expressed in a different way.

N-COUNT : oft N of n

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